SCALE-RT

Abbreviations / Glossary

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AFDX

Avionics Full DupleX Switched Ethernet, computer network protocol and bus standard, mainly used in aerospace – successor of ARINC

API

Application Programming Interface

ARINC

Aeronautical Radio Inc., computer network protocol and bus standard, mainly used in aerospace

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange, text based file format

CAN

Controller Area Network, computer network protocol and bus standard, mainly used in automotive sector

CD

Compact Disc

Classic

Basic SCALE-RT Package

COMEDI

Control And Measurement Device Interface

Concert

Medium SCALE-RT Package

CPU

Central processing unit

CygwinTM

Collection of tools running UNIX application on Windows operating systems

DAQ

Data acquisition

Debian

LINUX distribution

DLL

Dynamic Link Library

DNS

Domain name server

Euler’s Method

Mathematic method for solving linear ordinary differential equation (ODE)

FPGA

Field Programmable Gate Array

H/W

Hardware

HDD

Hard disk device

Heun’s Method

Mathematic method for solving linear ordinary differential equation (ODE)

HIL

Hardware-In-The-Loop

I/O

Input / Output

IP

Internet Protocol

Kernel

Central component of operating system

LINUX

Free operating system for computer

MDI

Measurement Data Interface

Modelica

Object oriented simulation language

NI

National Instruments Corporation

Opus

Most powerful SCALE-RT Package

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PXI System

Modular electronic instrumentation platform

Python

High-level programming language

RAM

Random access memory

ROM

Read only memory

RT

Real-time

RTAI

Real-time Application Interface

Open source project, see www.rtai.org

RTC

Real-time computing

RTW

Real-time Workshop

S/W

Software

Scicos®

Graphical simulation interface of Scilab

Scilab

Open source platform of scientific computation

SIL

Software-In-The-Loop

SimulationX®

Simulation tool of ITI GmbH

SWAP Partition

Memory swapping area

TLC

Target language compiler

VI

Virtual Instrument, LabVIEW® Program

XENOMAI

Real time kernel for LINUX

Open source project, see www.xenomai.org